Camous Moslemi, Susanne G Saekmose, Rune Larsen, Jakob T Bay, Thorsten Brodersen, Maria Didriksen, Henrik Hjalgrim, Karina Banasik, Kaspar R Nielsen, Mie T Bruun, Joseph Dowsett, Khoa M Dinh, Susan Mikkelsen, Christina Mikkelsen, Thomas F Hansen, Henrik Ullum, Christian Erikstrup, Søren Brunak, Karen Angeliki Krogfelt, Jill R Storry, Sisse R Ostrowski, Martin L Olsson, Ole B Pedersen
BACKGROUND: Accurate blood type data are essential for blood bank management, but due to costs, few of 43 blood group systems are routinely determined in Danish blood banks. However, a more comprehensive dataset of blood types is useful in scenarios such as rare blood type allocation. We aimed to investigate the viability and accuracy of predicting blood types by leveraging an existing dataset of imputed genotypes for two cohorts of approximately 90,000 each (Danish Blood Donor Study and Copenhagen Biobank) and present a more comprehensive overview of blood types for our Danish donor cohort...
November 3, 2023: Transfusion